The NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year grant in the amount of $720,000 to examine the effects of social and ecological factors, particularly, human migration and tourism on … Read more
Andrew Curley recently received a research grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for the project “The End of Navajo Coal,” which builds on his dissertation work on the social nature of coal in the Navajo Nation (2013-2014). Andrew’s follow up project … Read more
Dr. Elizabeth Olson (UNC Geography and Global Studies), with Mr. Martin Hunicutt (Duke Clinical Research Institute), has been approved for a $25,000 funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a project on Bookend Caregiving, or intergenerational … Read more
Professor Mike Emch has been awarded a US$4.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE) program with colleagues from Public Policy and Sociology. The grant titled “Confronting Energy Poverty: Building an Interdisciplinary Evidence … Read more
Impacts of Land-Use/Land-Cover and Climate Changes on the Gross and Net Primary Productivity in the Southeastern USA., PI: Conghe Song (UNC Chapel Hill); Co-I Taehe Hwang (Indiana Univ.) and Kim Novick (Indiana Univ); Collaborators: James Vose (US Forest Service) and … Read more
Diego Riveros-Iregui (Principal Investigator): “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impacts of Extreme Flooding on Hydrologic Connectivity and Water Quality in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Implications for Vulnerable Populations”, National Science Foundation, Hydrologic Sciences Program, EAR-1712345, $58,851, 2016-2017. In October 2016, Hurricane … Read more
Sara Smith (Principal Investigator). “Impacts of Education-Driven Urban Migration on Youth Aspirations and Identity” National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Science Program Grant, BCS-1561072, ($250,000)2016-2019. Around the world, young individuals, especially those who are rural, first generation, indigenous, and racialized … Read more
Dr. Olson (PI), with collaborator Martin Hunicutt (co-I), has been awarded a ‘pipeline to proposal’ grant from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), to establish the foundation of community-centered research on the needs of youth caregivers and older adults. … Read more
Mike Hawkins was awarded the 2016 AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group Masters Level Research Grant for his Masters Thesis Proposal at the Annual Conference in San Francisco. The award will help support his Masters summer research to be conducted this May-July in … Read more
Sarah Schmitt was awarded a grant from the Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Network and the Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) Program. The NSF-funded CZO SAVI program supports international research by graduate students and post-doctoral scholars that will advance critical zone … Read more
